…is, according to somebody in the publicity department, often praised as the best spy novelist ever. I say, gimme a break. Furst's Mission to Paris, new in our book list, is called an historical spy novel by that same publicity department, a designation apparently gained by sprinkling the word "Gestapo" here and there. Oh, and 1938. If that's not historical, what is?
Still, Mission is a good book for reading during a heat wave, when mostly what you're thinking about is just not working up a sweat.
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